Cursor — Free & Pro Trial
CursorVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Hobby tier + 14-day Pro trial
Windsurf — Free Tier
WindsurfVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Cascade agent with monthly premium-model quota
Codeium — Individual Free
CodeiumVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free forever — unlimited autocomplete + chat
Sourcegraph Cody — Free
SourcegraphVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — monthly autocomplete + chat quota
Zed — Free Editor + AI
ZedVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free editor with built-in agent (BYO key or hosted)
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
MicrosoftVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$150,000
Azure + OpenAI
Neon for Startups
NeonVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$2,500
credits
Modal Startup Credits
ModalVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Compute credits for AI startups
GitHub Copilot — Free Tier
GitHubVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — 2,000 completions / 50 chat / month
Groq Developer Free Tier
GroqVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — Llama, Mixtral inference on LPU
Hugging Face Inference — Free Tier
Hugging FaceVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free serverless inference with monthly quota
AWS Activate
Amazon Web ServicesVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
From
$1,000
Founders · up to $100,000 with accelerator/VC partner · 2 years
Google for Startups Cloud Program
Google CloudVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$350,000
over 2 years
DigitalOcean Hatch
DigitalOceanVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$5,000
credits
MongoDB for Startups
MongoDBVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$5,000
Atlas
Pinecone for Startups
PineconeVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$2,500
Pinecone
ElevenLabs Startup Grant
ElevenLabsVerified
- Curated
- No VC needed
Voice API credits for startups
Together AI Startup Credits
Together AIVerified
- Curated
Inference credits for early-stage
PostHog for Startups
PostHogVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
$50,000
PostHog credits + Teams plan
Linear for Startups
LinearVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
50% off Business plan for 1 year
Notion for Startups
NotionVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$6,000
Plus/AI
Anthropic for Startups
AnthropicVerified
- Official source
$5,000
API
Vercel for Startups
VercelVerified
- Official source
Credits + Enterprise features
Deepgram — Startup Program
DeepgramVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$100,000
credits over 12 months (tiered)
AssemblyAI — Startup Program
AssemblyAIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
200,000 hours speech-to-text credits (approved startups)
Fireworks — For Startups
Fireworks AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Build credits + higher rate limits (application required)
Baseten — AI Startup Program
BasetenVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$27,500
credits (inference + model APIs, tiered)
LangSmith — For Startups
LangChainVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$10,000
LangSmith credits on Scale tier (eligibility applies)
Upstash — Free Tier
UpstashVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — Redis, vector search, QStash within published limits
Mistral — API Free Tier
Mistral AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free experiment tier — rate-limited API (see console)
Google AI Studio — Gemini API Free Tier
GoogleVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Gemini API access with daily rate-limited quota
Lambda — GPU Cloud for Startups
LambdaVerified
- Official source
GPU credits for approved AI startups (varies by partner path)
LiveKit Cloud — Startup Program
LiveKitVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Discounted or free LiveKit Cloud for approved early-stage startups
Lightning AI — Free Studios Credits
Lightning AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free monthly Studios credits — CPU always-on, GPU by the minute